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We are now less than 2 weeks away from the US Freestyle Team Trials. This means that there are quite a few freestyle boaters right now who are feeling anxious, excited, focused, and generally fired up to try out for the opportunity to represent the USA in the 2013 Worlds in September. 

Worlds and Team Trials are unique this year. They are both held on the Nantahala River in NC, which means Team USA will get quite the home field advantage at Worlds. Our trials should select the…

Vacation Week for school children. Catalonian concentration by the Autonomous Federation, with 6 paddlers club: Aran, Judith, Kira, Dani, Iker, to spend a week training in one of the most perfect places to learn freestyle moves for all levels of paddlers, with coach Jacko…

This is the reason why the dams are a very stupid way to spend money in the river...

I think in this video shows clearly the normal death of this walls built in the river. The river don't like concrete in its bed. I do believe the only possible action to slow down rivers is to create natural looking rapids with big rocks.

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On the road back from Prague, I stopped in Lyon for a little freestyle session. The wave wasn't quite was I expected it to be. It was bubbling with a mind of its own. Got trashed couple of times - Wave: 1/ Nouria: 0 ! looking forward to the return match !

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Paddlers gather just below the Finish Line (Photo: Zach Collier)

The day was Saturday, March 13, 2013. The Wind River was at 5.9ft, a perfect medium flow with just enough juice to cover the F’U rocks. The last Pedialyte had been drank, and the…

I have received some flack about this writeup, please understand this is MY interpretation of the situation. Everyone we meet in this area was exceedingly friendly, and I am hopeful to return to this amazing community.…

I've been out of the scene for a few months enjoying my winter in VT.  We've had lots of snow this winter and it's been pretty cold.  I spent most of my time working at Timber Creek Cross Country and doing a lot of classic and skate skiing.  It was finally time to get out of VT and start paddling.  I headed to WV for a week bringing snow and cold temps with me.  I got some great days in on low water New River Dries and the Gorge section.  It was a great week getting myself comfortable in my…

The best time for creek kayaking in our surroundings, in winter, is in Portugal and Galicia.

So you only have to check different websites meteorology, rivers ... to find out which area you want, to go down the most beautiful rivers of the place.

This time we started the car for a quick…

Here is a link to some sweet shots of the new Recon.  If you are like me, while you are waiting to get a new boat, you want to look at as many videos and pictures as possible.  So I just shot a bunch of angles of the new boat before shredding down the Meadow.  Isn't she pretty....

Wave Sport Recon 83, never paddled

prototype testing in action

         It seems to…

Last weekend held the infamous National Student Rodeo. Every year, the event attracts around 1000 people and although the numbers were slightly down on last year, it certainly wasnt any less lively! NSR is thought to be the largest freestyle kayaking event on the planet - it also happens to be the most fun and i beleive this is no coincidence! Students flood from far and wide to participate in 'kayaking', although to the average onlooker it seems alot more like partying, swimming and…

My name is Aleix Salvat Cuevas I am 19 years old and I come from Spain. I was born in Sort a little town in the Catalan Pyrenes. at the age of four my parents introduced me to this wonderful sport kayaking and I have not stop practicing it since then. I started in the kayak club of my town, practicing slalom but I was trying a bit of all disciplines. then I started competing in downriver then to freestyle where I classified for the Championships in Europe and so I had a wider vision of what…

After an epic journey from Leh over 5300m passes and getting stuck in a snow storm Team Wave Sport UK kayaker Steve Brooks finally reached Manali.

Situated on the banks of the…

The Columbia River Gorge is a paddler’s paradise with over 20 runs in a half hour radius of Hood River, Oregon. This number swells with the wintertime rain, as paddlers giggle at the thought of what to paddle the next day.

Recently a group of us chose to rally Canyon Creek, a Washington classic. Canyon Creek is a class IV/V waterfall playground, with a handful of boulder gardens, and fun boofs. With names such as Swizzle Sticks,Terminator, Prelude, Thrasher, Kahuna, Champagne…

Lately there has been a big buzz about these harlem shake videos.... so i decided to make one of My own..... but with a twist... it is KAYAKING!!!!!

http://youtu.be/OKqnD8ruZP0

Estas dos últimas semanas estuvimos remando con Gerd, Marçal, Kalob y Marcos, el río Futaleufu para entrenar un poco antes de irnos a el río más grande de chile: el Baker .

Para llegar al Baker tuvimos un viaje de dos días en auto parando a dormir. Cuando llegamos por la noche al pueblo de Cochrane nos instalamos en casa de un buen amigo, Nico. Allí nos quedamos a dormir los siguientes 5 días. El primer día que entramos al río Baker la verdad es que todos estábamos un poco…

Finally after spending a year working in the school of kayaking (AEPallars, Sort) with kayak's future promises of the world, it was time to take off and heading to another country. So there was the moment to decide who and where would travel to.

Finally we went to Chile!…

Admittedly, I wish it was me that was taking this trip again. But I was happy to see a handful of my friends get their first experiences with the epoch that is a Grand Canyon trip. Dave Hepp, the head of the US National Whitewater Center Paddlesports program, gave me a shout about a month ago asking if he could borrow my Ethos 10 for their 14 day trip.

I was happy to help him out, but once again I can't stress enough, I would have rather been going in this boat. My…

So a few weeks ago I picked up my brand new Wave Sport Recon 83 from the Perception / Wave Sport factory (cheers guys). With a large amount of rain and snow melt in the UK it wasn't long before I got it out on the water.

Friend of mine Richard Brinkmann is on a mission to run 10 waterfalls in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. A couple of…